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Prof. Yasushi
Miyashita
Graduate School of Medicine, The
University of Tokyo |
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Prof. Wayne
O'Neil
Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy,
Massachusetts Institutes of Technology (M.I.T.) |
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Counterpart Organization: M.I.T. (U.S.A)
Supporting National Agency: National Science Foundation
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| We conducted the cooperative research with
the U.S.A. starting in 1996 to clarify the visual image production,
which is the base of humans' mental functions as well as the
core of highly-advanced cognitive functions, and the neuronal
expression for the brain articulation and the mechanisms,
which is basic functions of the mind supporting intellectual
abilities such as language. |
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| By demonstrating a study on the cerebral
mechanism that has operating capabilities of the articulation,
we made it clear that the cerebral cognitive systems consist
of systems based on an operation of: Depictive System and
Propositional System, including that there exists the cerebral
association area as the center. Indicating that the center
of the Depictive System is the TE/36 area in the temporal
lobe association areas and the center of the latter system
(Propositional System) is a Broca area in the prefrontal association
areas, we initiated a discovery of the regulatory signal (a
top-down signal) that lies from the prefrontal to the temporal
lobe association areas as a mechanism of interaction for those
areas in the world. |
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